Part 108

=ISAAC, HOPKIN=, Private, No. 8672, A Coy., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 5th _s._ of Howell Isaac, Collier, Navigation Colliery, Treharris, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Lewis Lewis; _b._ Treharris, co. Glamorgan, 30 Jan. 1888; educ. Board School there; was a Colliery Haulier; served for about eight months in the Monmouthshire R.E. in 1906; enlisted in the Dorsetshire Regt., after the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914, trained at Weymouth; went to France, 13 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915; _unm._ He was a good athlete, and won several prizes for racing, cycling, and boxing, also medals for football.

=ISTED, WILLIAM=, Trooper, No. 125, 1st Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of the late John Isted, Farm Bailiff, by his wife, Fanny (Burwash Common, co. Sussex), dau. of the late Alfred Wells, of Burwash; _b._ Mayfield, co. Sussex, 2 July, 1892; educ. St. Philip’s School, Burwash Weald; went to Australia in 1912; settled at an up-country station, Cootamundra, where he was an employee on a large farm; subsequently returned to Sydney, and then took up a situation at Mr. Morgan’s, Torrilla, near Scone, N.S.W.; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 1st Australian Light Horse; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died at No. 1 Australian General Hospital, Cairo, 16 Aug. 1915, of gunshot wounds received in action at Gallipoli; _unm._ Buried in Old Cairo Cemetery. His company officer wrote referring to the loss which the Regt. had sustained, and spoke in the highest terms of his popularity and fine soldierly qualities. His three brothers, Private Victor Isted, Private George Isted, and Private Frank Isted, are now (1916) on active service.

=IVE, DAVID=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., eldest _s._ of Ernest Ive, of The Hermitage, Meadvale, Redhill, Surrey, Assoc. M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, St. Claire, dau. of William George Taylor, of Carshalton, Surrey; _b._ Kensington, 27 May, 1894; educ. Reigate Grammar School, where he was a cadet in the O.T.C.; passed the Army Qualifying Examination in Nov. 1913; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Special Reserve of Officers, 1 Oct. 1913, receiving his preliminary training with the 1st Battn. Royal West Surreys; posted to the 2nd Battn. 1 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regt., which formed part of the 7th Division, on 5 Oct. 1914; took part in the severe fighting on the way to Ypres, and was killed in action there, 23 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Buried at Ypres.

=IVES, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., 5624 (R.F.R., B. 1189), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=IVINS, JOHN HERBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 7794, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of John Arthur Ivins, of 1, Flaxley Road, Stechford, Birmingham, Carpet Planner with Chamberlain, King & Jones, Birmingham, by his wife, Jessie Maude, dau. of James Nicholds, of Woodville, Selly Park, Birmingham; _b._ Yardley, Birmingham, 12 March, 1892; educ. Yardley School and St. John’s Sparkhill, Birmingham; enlisted 13 April, 1908; went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was given his stripe at the Front; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the advance to the Belgian frontier, etc., and was killed in action at Eppinette, 29 Dec. 1914; _unm._ Sergt. Leaman wrote: “We were being relieved when Jack, who was getting out of the trench, was hit in the head by a stray bullet, and before we got to him was dead.” He was buried in Le Touret Cemetery.

=IZZARD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R. Ch. B. 7556), S.S. 102795, H.M.S. Aboukir lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKMAN, ALBERT EDWARD=, Chief Armourer, 341931; served some time in H.M.S. Cressy (discharged 24 July, 1914); then joined H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, EDWARD PHILLIPS=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., attd. 1st South Wales Borderers, 2nd _s._ of the Rev. William Edward Jackson, M.A., Rector of Loughton, co. Bucks, formerly scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of John Broadhurst, of Congleton; _b._ Monks Kirby Vicarage, co. Warwick, 11 Dec. 1893; educ. Newchurch Grammar School, King’s School, Warwick, and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Warwicks, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; left for France, 25 Dec. 1914, when he was attached to the 1st South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. Buried there; _unm._ His Major wrote: “He was absolutely fearless and was very popular with those over him and under him.”

=JACKSON, FREDERICK JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 58, 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, Machine Gun Section, 2nd _s._ of Harry Mayland Jackson, of The Ben Jonson, Goodman’s Yard, Minories, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Greenslade, dau. of the late James Young, of the Ferndale Hotel, Manor Way, Woolwich; _b._ Woolwich, 16 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Leonard Road Board School, Bromley-by-Bow, E.; enlisted in the 1st Rifle Brigade, May, 1913; left for France, 8th Aug. 1914; att. to 1st Battn. (Special Reserve), and was killed in action, near Pilken, 6 July, 1915; _unm._ Sergt. P. Blent, of the Machine Gun Section of his Battn., wrote: “Firstly, I must tell you that if any man earned the V.C. in the war, he did, for the part he took in the attack of ours on 6 July. He was trying to get his gun into action when he was wounded, first of all in the shoulder; this did not deter him, for he still endeavoured to do what he had set out to do, but unfortunately he was wounded again, this time in the face. He then had to give up the attempt, and took to his right and opened fire, and it was while doing this he met his death, for a piece of shrapnel entered the back of his head, and he died almost instantly. His conduct throughout was magnificent and he died a real hero.” The two brothers of L.-Corpl. Jackson are serving in the Army, one of whom, L.-Corpl. A. E. Jackson, of the 3rd Wiltshire Regt., was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.

=JACKSON, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 3123, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=JACKSON, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 8972, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Frank Leighton, of Howden, Yorks, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Jackson; _b._ Howden, Yorks, 13 Jan. 1880; educ. Church of England School there; enlisted in 1911, went to France, 1914, and died a prisoner of war at Schneidemühl, in Germany, 8 Feb. 1915; _unm._

=JACKSON, JOSHUA GRAHAM=, Corpl., No. 10/570, 3rd Auckland Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Joshua Jackson, of Auckland, New Zealand, J.P., Sharebroker; _b._ Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Aug. 1881; educ. Northcote School there; and was in the employ of the Railway Service. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, left New Zealand with the main body in Oct. 1914; trained in Egypt during the winter; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April; was seriously wounded that day and invalided to England, where he spent several months; returned to duty in Nov. and had only been two days at Gallipoli when he was shot in the stomach by a sniper, while going to the beach to get water. He died on board the Hospital Ship Neuralia, 11 Nov. 1915, and was buried at sea between Rhodes and Alexandria; _unm._

=JACKSON, SOLOMON=, Private, R.M.L.I., 11701 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1876), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JACKSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5451, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., _s._ of George Jackson, of 11, Smalley Street, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn; _b._ Primrose Hill, 28 Sept. 1891; enlisted in the East Lancashires, passed into the Reserve, 22 Oct. 1913; rejoined his Battn. on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division against the German position at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; _unm._

=JACKSON, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 6620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=JACKSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17559, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=JACQUES, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS=, Lieut.-Col., 14th (King George’s Own) Ferozepore Sikhs, 3rd _s._ of the Rev. Canon Kinton Jacques, Rector of Brindle, co. Lancs. (died 24 April, 1915), by his wife, Caroline Augusta, dau. of the Rev. Gardnor Baldwin; _b._ Leyland, co. Lancaster, 9 April, 1867; educ. Rossall School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 6 Nov. 1887, and promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1890; served for a few months with the 11th Rajputs and was then posted to the 14th Sikhs; joined the Indian S.C., 6 Sept. 1890, and transferred to the Indian Army, becoming Capt. 16 Nov. 1898, Major 16 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913. He served with the Hazara Expedition, 1891 (medal with clasp); with the Waziristan Expedition in 1894–5 (clasp); in the Tochi Campaign on the North-West Frontier, 1897–8 (medal with clasp), and in 1900 with the force that went to China (medal), and was temporarily Second in Command of the 45th Sikhs from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1910, and of the 29th Punjabis, April to Oct. 1911. After the outbreak of the European War he went with his regt. to Egypt, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action, 4 June, 1915. A brother officer wrote: “I don’t think your husband knew what fear was, he was always so cheery when there was any show going on that it did one good to see him and be near him, and so it must have been to the last;” and his subaltern, who was two yards from him when he was killed, wrote: “I shall always appreciate your husband’s memory, not only as my double company Commander, but as a friend. Your husband was wonderfully cool and calm in action, much the same as when on parade. He knew that we had little chance of coming out of the advance alive, but he was cheerful to the last. His last words to me before breakfast were that he did not fear death at all, because you and his children were well provided for. That was about the only time I saw him in what one might call a serious mood.” He _m._ at Brindle, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1904, Olivia Katherine, dau. of Burkill Jacques, of San Diego, California, and had two daughters: Barbara Caroline, _b._ 18 Jan. 1912; and Ruth Olivia, _b._ 6 Feb. 1914.

=JAGGER, OLIVER ROBIN OCTAVIUS=, Cadet Royal Navy, H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. _s._ of Arthur Edward Jagger, of Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, Chairman of Singer & Co., Ltd., Coventry, by his wife, Sarah Lucy, dau. of William Burton, of Allesley, near Coventry; _b._ Coundon Lodge, near Coventry, 27 Sept. 1898; educ. Pretoria House, Folkestone, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; appointed Cadet to H.M.S. Bulwark, 2 Aug. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 26 Nov. following.

=JAMES, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6581), 354275, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=JAMES, DAVID=, Petty Officer, 183045, R.N.; killed in action at Tsing-tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet, while engaged in chasing the German destroyer S. 90.

=JAMES, ERIC SAMUEL PENNANT KINGSBURY=, Capt. 6th (Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only _s._ of Edward Lewis James, of Holly Lodge, Larkhall Rise, S.W., F. Chemical S., F.R.H.S., by his wife, Sarah; _b._ Clapham, 4 Sept. 1887; educ. Manor House School, Clapham; St. Paul’s School (Foundation Scholar); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (an Open Classical Exhibitioner, John Stock Exhibitioner and College Prizeman, B.A. (2nd Class Honours Classical Tripos) 1909; and M.A. 1914); and the University of Paris; was assistant-master and house-master at Oundle School, 1910; assistant-master at Merchant Taylors’ School, 1913; appointed 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force (unattd. list), 23 March, 1910; promoted Lieut. 18 Oct. 1912, and Capt. 15 Jan. 1914, and served in the O.T.C. at Oundle and Merchant Taylors’; gazetted Capt. to 6th (Reserve) Battn. K.R.R.C., 20 Sept. 1914; left for France, 6 Jan. 1915, and was attached to 4th Battn., and was killed in action about 21 miles from Dickebusch, at midnight on 17 March, 1915; _unm._ Capt. Hugo Watson, then temporarily in command of the 4th K.R.R.C. wrote: “He was shot in the head last night, about 11.45, while standing behind a breastwork, superintending his men at work filling sandbags. He was killed instantly. We buried him to-day in the Military Cemetery at Dickebusch, four miles from Ypres and 2½ miles from where he was killed.... I cannot tell you what a great loss he is. I was Adjutant of the 6th K.R.R.C., till recently when I came out here.... I know what splendid work he did at Sheerness, and how Colonel Brownlow depended on him. I was with him last Sunday, when we had a very nasty time; he was very cool and did admirably”; and Lieut.-Col. Brownlow, commanding the 6th Battalion, wrote: “He did excellent work for me down here, and I heard he was doing real well in France. He was most popular and looked up to by everybody, and was a very smart and efficient soldier.” The 4th Battn. K.R.R.C. was specially mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915, for “a very gallant attack on the enemy’s trenches on 2 March.” Capt. James was an excellent oarsman. He was Second Boat Captain at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, rowed in the College boat at Henley, 1909, and was a member of the Thames Rowing Club. He was also a good rifle shot and passed the School of Musketry at Hythe. He annually visited the Continent and was a good linguist, and at Merchant Taylors’ he attracted considerable attention by the success of his original methods of teaching history.

=JAMES, GEORGE MILLAIS=, Capt. 1st Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), and Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, elder _s._ of the late Major William Christopher James, Royal Scots Greys and 16th Lancers, by his wife, Effie Grey, dau. of the late Sir John Millais, 1st Bart., P.R.A., the eminent painter, and grandson of the late Lord Justice Sir William Milburn James; _b._ London, 15 Nov. 1880; educ. Cheltenham and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, 6 Dec. 1899; promoted Lieut. 17 Feb. 1900; and Capt. 30 May, 1904. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902; taking part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, in the Transvaal, West of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Venterskroon, in which he was slightly wounded; in Orange River Colony, May to July, 1900, including action at Rhenoster River; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to Jan. 1902; and in Cape Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902. For his services he was mentioned twice in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901] and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps. After the war, he was stationed with his battn. at Wynberg, Cape Colony, in Mauritius, and in India, and was Adjutant from 1 Oct. 1903 to 30 Sept. 1906. He was transferred to the 1st Buffs, then at Aldershot, 20 May, 1908, and in 1910 entered the Staff College, and, having passed through it with distinction, was, on 7 Sept. 1912, appointed Brigade-Major, Pretoria District, South Africa. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and was appointed Brigade-Major, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 18 Sept. 1914. He left for France with the famous and ill-fated 7th Division, under Gen. Capper, on 4 Oct. his Brigadier being Gen. Lawford, and was killed in action near Ypres, during the first battle of that name, 3 Nov. following. Buried in a wood, about three miles S.W. of Ypres. Capt. James _m._ in London, 16 Oct. 1907, Hylda Madeleine, only dau. of Sir James Heath, of Oxendon Hall, Market Harborough, 1st Bart., and had two daus.: Eileen Alice, _b._ 19 June, 1909; and Daphne Millais, _b._ 13 Jan. 1911.

=JAMES, JOHN STEPHEN HARVEY=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only child of Quintus Stephen Harvey James, of Croft Lodge, Mill Hill, N.W., by his wife, Josephine, dau. of John Rees, of Stafford House, South Hampstead; _b._ London, 22 Jan. 1894; educ. Colet Court and St. Paul’s School, and at the outbreak of war was a student at Guy’s Hospital. He had joined the Artists’ Rifles in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war was among the first to volunteer for foreign service, and left for the Front on 25 Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 17 March following, and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué during a successful endeavour to capture some of the enemy’s trenches, in the Battle of Festubert, 15–16 May, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was under me all the time he was with us. He was always cheerful, imperturbable, and a thorough soldier. He died very bravely;” and Major Armstrong: “Your boy had actually reached the German trench when he was killed. We all deplore his loss.”

=JAMES, PERCY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8187), S.S. 1720, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=JAMES, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7911), S.S. 103598, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=JAMES, THOMAS SPENCER=, Rifleman, No. 2177, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Major Arthur James, Suffolk Regt., by his wife, Hannah Caroline (Newbury Quadrant Road, Thornton Heath), dau. of William Ling, of Bury St. Edmunds; _b._ Ely, co. Cambridge, 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon; joined The Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; landed in France with the battn. on Christmas Day following, and died in the 1st N.M. Field Ambulance, 8 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fortuin, near Ypres, on the 6th. Buried in Soldiers’ Cemetery, Hazebrouck; _unm._ His Platoon Officer wrote: “Your boy was so generally liked by all his comrades, whose spirits he greatly helped to keep alive, that his loss will be much felt, particularly when we do get together again. We went through so much together in my Platoon;” and a comrade: “24 April, we attacked in open order in support of 1st Suffolks, to back up the Canadians, who were gassed out. After this we were under continuous shell-fire both night and day, and our Platoon was reduced to four men, when in the early morning of May 6 a shell burst in our trench, and we were all put out of action. Your son was much liked in the Company, always ready to do a good turn to anybody; he was full of pluck and always the first to volunteer for any desperate task, in fact he was a soldier and a man worthy to be the son of a soldier.”

=JAMESON, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 3rd _s._ of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of Tooke Luscombe; _b._ Dublin, 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and H.M.S. Britannia, which he joined in Sept. 1898; appointed Naval Cadet, 15 May, 1900, and Midshipman, 30 May following, and served on board the Theseus and Repulse on the Mediterranean Station; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 July, 1903, and went through the various courses and examinations to qualify for the rank of Lieut., taking four “firsts”; served at home in the destroyer Waveney and on North American Station in the Ariadne, flagship of Sir Day Bosanquet. He was promoted Lieut. 30 July, 1905, and in the same year joined H.M.S. Forth to qualify in submarines, and was shortly afterwards appointed to the command of A8, in which he served until May, 1908. He was then appointed to H.M.S. Thames for command of C2, and in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Neptune, the flagship of the Home Fleet, where he served under Sir Francis Bridgeman and Sir George Callaghan. In April, 1912, he was selected for the War Staff Course, being the junior officer of the class and, after completing the course was, in Feb. 1913, appointed to the Antrim for War Staff duties, where he served under Rear-Admiral Madden and Rear-Admiral Pakenham. He was promoted Lieut.-Com. 3 July following, and in March, 1914, he returned to the submarine service, being appointed to the command of D2 in 8th Flotilla. He took part in the Battle of the Bight of Heligoland; was mentioned in the despatch of Commander Keyes, C.M., M.V.O., 17 Oct. 1914, and was drowned off Yarmouth on 23 Nov. following, being washed overboard from submarine D2 while on active service. His body was not recovered. He _m._ at St. Mary’s Church, North Huish, Devon, 5 Aug. 1908, Isabel, yst. dau. of Augustus J. Pitman, of The Manor House, North Huish, and had a dau., Isabel Valerie, _b._ 10 Dec. 1913.

=JAMESON, HAROLD GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 65th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, 6th _s._ of Robert William Jameson, of Campfield House, Dundrum, co. Dublin, F.S.I., J.P., by his wife, Katherine Anne, dau. of the late Tooke Luscombe; _b._ Corgrig Lodge, Foynes, co. Limerick, 11 Oct. 1888; educ. Monkton Combe School, near Bath, and Trinity College, Dublin. Having completed his course at the University he was, in Oct. 1911, appointed Assistant Director of Works in the Sudan Irrigation Service (a branch of the P.W.D., Egyptian Government), and remained in this service until the summer of 1914, much of his time being spent in the Upper Nile Provinces, where he got some big game shooting, and secured several good specimens, including three elephants. He was in Ireland when war broke out, and, having applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers (S.R.), 1 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attached to the 65th Field Coy. After training at Chatham and at the Curragh, he left for the Dardanelles with the 10th Division in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of 15–16 Aug. 1915, on a ridge on the Karakol Dagh which his company had been called out to help to hold; _unm._ His commanding officer (who was himself wounded on the 14 or 15 Aug.) wrote: “He was a general favourite amongst officers and men. We had a hard time at the Dardanelles, but your son’s never-failing courage and cheerfulness under these adverse circumstances were of the greatest help to us all. His death is a great loss to the 65th Coy., and to the R.E. of the 10th Division.”